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Best formatting plugins for WordPress

The most popular formatting plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Excerpt leads with 80K+ active installs, ahead of Raw HTML (10K+) and TinyMCE Clear Float (10K+). All 133 plugins tagged “formatting” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.

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Top 10 formatting plugins

  1. 1.
    Advanced Excerpt

    The most installed formatting plugin, with 80K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 101 reviews, updated 3 months ago.

  2. 2.
    Raw HTML

    10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 33 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.

  3. 3.
    TinyMCE Clear Float

    10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.

  4. 4.
    Toggle wpautop

    9K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 32 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.

  5. 5.
    Advanced Image Styles

    9K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 65 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.

  6. 6.
    Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg

    3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 20 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.

  7. 7.
    Footnotes Made Easy

    2K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 40 reviews, updated 1 day ago.

  8. 8.
    WP-RTL

    2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.

  9. 9.
    WP Super Edit

    2K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 18 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.0.

  10. 10.
    WP Typograph Lite

    1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.1.

All 133 plugins tagged “formatting”